They get it. I’m really proud of them for having such a professional-looking effort put together to go with the results. Those numbers won’t surprise you, Good Reader, but they do make for probing questions for candidates, don’t they? please, don’t tell me whom the unions have endorsed; I honestly don’t know and it has nothing to do with this post. Thank you. And for in discussions with neighbors and coworkers, as we all think about what we are going to do to solve this problem. It’s rather clear it’s going to take the clown squad in the Village a long time just to get on the same page as the rest of us.

Does anyone have any experience with, gosh, I don’t even know if they exist, but I’m thinking of small scale “health care collectives?” The New Depression won’t be like the other one; doctors are too harrassed these days to fall back into the house-calling, country gentleman model. So how do small units of people find ways to work together to improve the quality of the health care they receive? Pressure local governments? Business cooperation? Buying hospitals? Help me out here.